COM Comparative Literature

Note. Many courses in Comparative Literature require that students have met the Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR) for the University of California.

Courses in COM:

COM001—Major Books of Western Culture: The Ancient World(4)Review all entriesHistorical

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement.Introduction, through class discussion and frequent written assignments, to some of the major books of western civilization such as The Odyssey, Aeneid, Bible, and Augustine's Confessions.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2010 Spring Quarter.

COM001—Major Works of the Ancient World(4)Review all entriesActive

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Introduction, through class discussion and frequent written assignments, to some of the major works of the ancient world (up to 5th century CE) such as The Odyssey, the Bible, Augustine's Confessions, and works by Plato and Confucius. Examined genres include religious texts, the epic, philosophy, drama, poetry. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2019 Fall Quarter.

COM002—Major Books of Western Culture: From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment(4)Review all entriesHistorical

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement.Introduction to the methods of inquiry applied to critical reading and the practice of writing. Focus on texts from the European Middle Ages to the eighteenth century; critical analysis of the historical-cultural developments in this period.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2010 Spring Quarter.

COM002—Major Works of the Medieval and Early Modern World(4)Review all entriesActive

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Introduction, through class discussion and frequent written assignments, to some of the major works of the medieval and early modern worlds (6th century to the mid 17th century) such as Dante’s Comedy, 1001 Nights, The Tale of Genji, and Elizabethan/Jacobean plays. Examined genres include framed narratives, courtly literature, and early modern drama. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2019 Fall Quarter.

COM003—Major Books of Western Culture: The Modern Crisis(4)Review all entriesHistorical

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement.Introduction, through class discussion and frequent written assignments, to the major literature and thought of the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2010 Spring Quarter.

COM003—Major Works of the Modern World(4)Review all entriesActive

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Introduction, through class discussion and frequent written assignments, to some of the major works of the modern world (mid 17th to the mid 20th centuries) such as those by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Woolf, Lu Xun, Borges and Yeats. Examined genres include realist fiction, modernist fiction, and modernist poetry. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2019 Fall Quarter.

COM004—Major Books of the Contemporary World(4)Review all entriesHistorical

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of entry level writing requirement.Comparative study of selected major Western and non-Western texts composed in the period from 1945 to the present. Intensive focus on writing about these texts, with frequent papers written about these works.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

COM004—Major Works of the Contemporary World(4)Review all entriesActive

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Comparative study of selected major Western and non-Western texts composed in the period from 1945 to the present. Intensive focus on writing about these texts, with frequent papers written about these works.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE.Effective: 2019 Fall Quarter.

COM005—Fairy Tales, Fables, and Parables(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s).An introduction to fairy tales, fables, and parables as recurrent forms in literature, with such readings as tales from Aesop and Grimm, Chaucer and Shakespeare, Kafka and Borges, Buddhist and Taoist parables, the
Arabian Nights, and African American folklore.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).A consideration, in literary works from different ages, of visionary and rational perceptions of a lost paradise, Golden Age, or Atlantis-and of the inhuman nightmares that can result from perversions of the utopian dream of perfection.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

COM009—The Short Story and Novella(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.An introduction to shorter forms of prose fiction by major authors of different countries, with special emphasis on the modern period.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Gilgamesh, Ramayana, Beowulf, Nibelungenlied.May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Metamorphoses, Decameron, Arabian Nights, Canterbury Tales.May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Chanson de Roland, El Cid, Igor’s Campaign, Morte D’Arthur.May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM010D—Master Authors in World Literature; Sakuntala, Tristan and Isolde, Aucassin and Nicolette, Gawain and the Green Knight(2)Active

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Sakuntala, Tristan and Isolde, Aucassin and Nicolette, Gawain and the Green Knight.May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Swift, Rabelais, La Celestina, Simplicissimus. May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Cervantes, Saikaku, Fielding, Voltaire.May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Lope de Vega/Calderón, Molière/Racine, Lessing/Schiller. May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Goethe, Byron, Stendhal, Pushkin, Lermontov.May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Hoffmann, Gogol, Poe, Hawthorne, Maupassant, Chekhov, Melville.May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Flaubert, Twain, Turgenev, Galdós, Ibsen.May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Balzac, Dostoevski/Tolstoi, Hardy, Shaw, Strindberg.May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Unamuno, Svevo, Conrad, Gide, Kafka, Faulkner. May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Rilke/Yeats, Joyce/Woolf, Mann/Céline, Bulgakov/Tanizaki, O’Neill/Brecht, Lorca/Pirandello.May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—1 hour(s).Limited enrollment.Designed primarily to acquaint the non-literature major with a cross-section of writings by the world’s most important authors; readings in English translation. Content alternates among the following segments: Camus/Sartre, García Márquez/Grass, Borges/Sarraute, Bellow/Nabokov, Beckett/Pinter, Genet/Dürrenmatt.May be repeated for credit in different subject area.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM011—Travel and the Modern World(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Extensive Writing.Examination of travel as a quintessential human activity and experience of global modernity and cross-cultural encounters from the 18th to the 21st century with an emphasis on German-speaking culture. Travelogues, literature, art, memoirs, and films in English translation.(Same course as GER 011.)(Letter.)GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

Lecture—3 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Introduction, through careful reading of selected plays, to some of the major forms of Western drama, from the earliest tragedies of ancient Greece to the contemporary American theater.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

COM014—Introduction to Poetry(3)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Comparative study of poetry in a variety of lyric and other poetic forms from different historical periods and different linguistic, national, and cultural traditions.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Consideration of a broad range of writers who speak from an ethnic perspective different from the nominally or politically dominant culture of their respective countries and who explore the challenges faced by characters significantly affected by their ethnic minority status.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2011 Winter Quarter.

COM053A—Literature of East Asia(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Introduction to representative masterpieces of East Asia with readings
from such works as The Story of the Stone, The Peach Blossom Fan, T'ang and Sung poetry, classical Japanese poetry, drama, and travel diaries, and The Tale of Genji.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, OL, WC, WE.Effective: 2015 Spring Quarter.

COM053B—Literature of South Asia(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Introduction to representative masterpieces of South Asia with readings
from such works as the Mahabharata and Ramayana, The Cloud Messenger, Shakuntala, The Little Clay Cart, and the stories and poems of both
ancient and modern India and Southeast Asia.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, OL, WC, WE.Effective: 2015 Spring Quarter.

COM053C—Literatures of the Islamic World(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Introduction to classical Islamic culture through translations of literature primarily from Arabic and Persian, as well as other languages. Topics include the concept of the self, society and power, spirituality, the natural world, the cosmos, and the supernatural. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, OL, WC, WE.Effective: 2015 Fall Quarter.

COM090X—Lower Division Seminar(1-2)Active

Seminar—1-4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor.Examination of a special topic in a small group setting.(Letter.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR), upper division standing, or consent of instructor.Comparative, cross-cultural study of a topic, theme, or movement in world cinema beyond the boundary of a single national tradition. Topics may include "postsocialist cinemas in East Europe and Asia," "cinema and globalization," and "popular Asian cinemas" May be repeated up to 3 Time(s) the topic differs.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE.Effective: 2017 Spring Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor. Or upper-division standing.Introduction to Japanese cinema from early silent films to the present. Explores important directors, genres, stars, themes and techniques in relation to specific historical and cultural contexts. Lectures and readings in English. Films in Japanese with English subtitles. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, VL, WC, WE.Effective: 2018 Spring Quarter.

COM120—Writing Nature: 1750 to the Present(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Study of representations, descriptions, and discussions of humankind's problematical relationship with the non-human world in texts written in a variety of European and American traditions between 1750 and the present.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

COM135—Women Writers(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.An exploration of women's differing views of self and society as revealed in major works by female authors of various times and cultures. Readings, principally of fiction, will include such writers as Lady Murasaki, Mme de Lafayette, and Charlotte Bronte.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Shakespeare's representations of the classical world in the light of selected ancient texts and Renaissance conceptions of Antiquity, with special attention to the depiction of politics and history.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

COM140—Thematic and Structural Study of Literature(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Interpretation of selected works illustrating the historical evolution
of themes, as well as of formal and structural elements.May be repeated for credit.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM141—Introduction to Critical Theoretical Approaches to Literature and Culture(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor.Close reading of selected texts; scrutiny of very limited amount of material, with attention to the problems of texts in translation.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM144—The Grotesque(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Study of the "grotesque" in selected texts from the Renaissance to the 20th century, with attention to the "grotesque" as a means of social, cultural, and political commentary, as well as of aesthetic innovation.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

COM145—Representations of the City(4)Active

Lecture—2 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s); Extensive Writing.Exploration of the representation of the city in major translated literary texts from a variety of literary traditions and periods. Emphasis on the diversity of urban experience in literature. Topics include public and private space, memory, and gender. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2004 Spring Quarter.

COM146—Myth in Literature(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):COM 006 recommended.Comparative study of different versions of one or more central myths, with attention to their cultural settings, artistic and literary forms of representation, as well as to their psychological dimensions.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM147—Modern Jewish Writers(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Problems of the modern Jewish experience from the perspective of the writer's construction of the self in relation to the future and to the non-Jew. Draws upon Russian, German, Yiddish, and American traditions.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

COM148—Mystical Literatures of South Asia and the Middle East(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Exploration of the comparative mystical literatures of major religious traditions, with a focus on those produced in South Asia and the Middle East, although including other traditions. (Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2010 Fall Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Study of the various stylistic, historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to a hemispheric vision of American literature, encompassing works by Canadian, United States, Caribbean, Brazilian, and Spanish-American writers.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Introduction to distinctive Asian literary forms, such as haiku, noh, the Chinese novel and tale, through reading of major works. Comparison with Western genres and study of native and Western critical traditions.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

COM154—African Literature(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Colonial and post-colonial sub-Saharan African literature and the African oral traditions from which it emerged. Genres and themes of African literature from the nineteenth century to the present.(Same course as AAS 153.)(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2012 Spring Quarter.

Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Exploration of the Indian epic, Ramayana, through the lens of literature, performance, and visual art. Emphasis on the text's diversity and its contemporary global relevance. Topics include Ramayanas in Southeast Asia, and in various South Asian diaspora communities. (Same course as RST 158.)(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2015 Spring Quarter.

COM157—War and Peace in Literature(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):COM 001 or COM 002 or COM 003; or Consent of Instructor.Through study of a few major works from Western and non-Western literature the course seeks to illuminate the way in which literature from antiquity to the present has dealt with the antinomy peace/war through the ages.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM158—The Detective Story as Literature(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Study of the origins, literary and social background, development and
implications of the literature of detection in a comparative context.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM159—Women in Literature(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):COM 001, COM 002, COM 003, or COM 004 or the equivalent recommended.Portrayals of women in literature, comparing selected heroines who represent a particular theme, period, or genre. Texts range around the globe and from ancient to modern works, such as Lysistrata, Emma, Hedda Gabler, The Makioka Sisters, and Top Girls.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM160A—The Modern Novel(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.The changing image of man and his world as seen in novels by such writers as Joyce, Proust, and Mann.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Persistent and changing aspects of the tragic vision in literature from ancient times to the present.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM161B—Comedy(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Comic attitudes towards life in literary works of different ages.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM162—Writing Love and War in South Asia(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Comparative study of the themes and motifs of love and war in the literature of South Asia. Includes a discussion of Sanskrit epics, classical erotic court poetry, medieval heroic poetry, mystical compositions and colonial and post-colonial fiction.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, OL, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

COM163—Biography and Autobiography(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Portrayals of a human life in biographies and/or autobiographies of different countries and ages.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Readings in major authors such as Calderón, Corneille, Pascal, Racine, Milton, and Grimmelshausen, with consideration of the tension between the expansive energies of the "baroque" and the restraints of dogma and reason.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Comparative approach to the multi-lingual, multi-cultural literatures of the Caribbean. Works from English, French, and Spanish speaking regions with special attention to problems of identity, diaspora and resistance, class, gender, race.Not open to students who have completed COM 165S.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Fall Quarter.

COM165S—Caribbean Literatures(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—4 hour(s).Restricted to upper division standing in the student's discipline of origin.Comparative approach to the multi-lingual, multi-cultural literatures of the Caribbean. Works from English, French, and Spanish speaking regions with special attention to problems of identity, diaspora and resistance, class, gender, race. Taught at the University of Havana, Cuba.
Not open to students who have completed COM 165.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2004 Fall Quarter.

COM166—Literatures of the Modern Middle East(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Major translated works in modern Middle Eastern and North African Literature, including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish. Social and historical formation, with topics such as conflict and coexistence, journeys, and displaced people, gender and family.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2007 Fall Quarter.

COM166A—The Epic(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Study of various forms of epic poetry in both the oral and literary
traditions. May be repeated for credit in different subject area.May be repeated for credit.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor.Pivotal works of artists in the Western mainstream, such as Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goethe, Tolstoi, Proust, and Joyce.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM168A—Romanticism(4)Active

Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).Introduction to the Romantic movement with emphasis upon Romantic concepts of the self, irony, love, the imagination and artistic creativity, and the relationship of the individual to nature and society.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

COM168B—Realism and Naturalism(4)Active

Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor.Novels and plays by Dickens, Zola, Flaubert, Dreiser, Ibsen, and Strindberg investigate marriage and adultery, the city and its perils, the hardships of industrialization, the war between the sexes, the New Woman, and other 19th-century themes.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM169—The Avant-Garde(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Studies in movements such as surrealism, expressionism and the absurd.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM170—The Contemporary Novel(4)Active

Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Study of important novels from different parts of the world, including
Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the United States, in the period from the Second World War to the present.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM172—A Story for a Life: The Arabian Nights(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.In-depth exploration of The Arabian Nights, the best-known work of pre-modern Arabic literature and a major work of world literature. Analysis of the work in its historical context and in comparison to other frame tales in world literature.(Same course as ARB 140 and MSA 121C.)(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2016 Winter Quarter.

COM175—Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.In-depth analysis of the Persian Book of Kings (Shahnameh) by Abu al-Qasim Ferdowsi (d. 1020 CE) in its historical context with a comparative perspective on the role of this work in Persian and world literature.(Same course as MSA 121A.)(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2015 Winter Quarter.

COM180—Selected Topics in Comparative Literature(4)Active

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Completion of Subject A requirement and at least one course in literature.Study of a selected topic or topics appropriate to student and faculty
interests and areas of specialization of the instructor.May be repeated up to 1 Time(s).(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—6 hour(s); Extensive Writing; Fieldwork—6 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Subject A, and at least one course in literature, or consent of instructor.Study of selected topics appropriate to student and faculty interests and areas of specialization of the instructor. May be repeated once for credit when topic differs.May be repeated up to 1 Time(s).(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WC, WE.Effective: 2007 Fall Quarter.

COM192—Internship in Comparative Literature(1-12)Active

Internship—1-12 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor. Completion of 84 units.Restricted to Comparative Literature majors.Internships in fields where students can practice their skills.May be repeated up to 12 Unit(s).(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 2013 Fall Quarter.

COM194H—Special Study for Honors Students(1-5)Active

Independent Study—1-5 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor. Open only to majors of senior standing who qualify for Honors Program.Guided research, under the direction of a faculty member approved by the Program Director, leading to a senior honors thesis on a comparative
topic.May be repeated for credit.(P/NP grading only.)GE credit: AH, WE.Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM195—Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature(4)Active

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Senior standing as a Comparative Literature major or minor or consent of instructor.Open only to Comparative Literature majors or minors in or consent of instructor.Advanced study of selected topics and texts in Comparative Literature, with explicit emphasis on the theoretical and interpretive approaches that define Comparative Literature as a discipline and distinguish it from other literary disciplines. Required for the major.(Letter.)GE credit: AH, WE.Effective: 2012 Fall Quarter.

COM197T—Tutoring in Comparative Literature(1-5)Active

Discussion—2-4 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor. Upper division standing with declared major in Comparative Literature.Tutoring in undergraduate courses including leadership in small voluntary discussion groups affiliated with current courses offered by Comparative Literature.May be repeated up to 6 Unit(s).(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM198—Directed Group Study for Advanced Undergraduates(1-5)Active

Variable.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM199—Special Study for Advanced Undergraduates(1-5)Active

Variable.(P/NP grading only.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM210—Topics and Themes in Comparative Literature(4)Active

Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Graduate standing in Comparative Literature, English, or a foreign-language literature, or consent of instructor.Comparative, interpretive study of the treatment of specific topics and themes in literary works from various periods, societies, and cultures, in light of these works' historical and sociocultural contexts.May be repeated for credit.(Letter.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM214—Approaches to Lyric Poetry(4)Active

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Graduate standing or consent of instructor.Analysis and interpretation of poetic texts in different historical
periods and national literatures, with consideration of major theoretical developments in the understanding of poetic discourse.(Letter.)Effective: 1998 Fall Quarter.

COM215—Forms of the Spiritual Quest(4)Active

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Graduate standing or consent of instructor; knowledge of at least one foreign language.An exploration, culminating in a research paper, of changing forms of the quest for transcendence in different cultures, mainly in major works of Western literature, but also in other traditions and from the perspectives of other disciplines.(Letter.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM220—Literary Genres(4)Active

Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Graduate standing in Comparative Literature, English, or a foreign-language literature or consent of instructor.Comparative literature of major works in a particular genre from various linguistic, national, and cultural traditions, with particular attention to historical developments within the genre and to genre theory.May be repeated for credit.(Letter.)Effective: 1997 Winter Quarter.

COM238—Gender and Interpretation(4)Active

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Graduate standing or consent of instructor.Study of how literary texts from different periods, societies, and
cultures represent gender roles and gender hierarchy, building on recent work on gender in anthropology, literature, psychology, and women's studies.(Letter.)Effective: 1998 Fall Quarter.

COM250A—Research in Primary Literature(4)Active

Project (Term Project).Individually guided research in the primary literature of concentration, under the supervision of a faculty member culminating in a conference paper. Required of M.A. and Ph.D. candidates.(Letter.)Effective: 2011 Fall Quarter.

COM250B—Research in Second Literature(4)Active

Project (Term Project).Individually guided research in the secondary literature of concentration, under the supervision of a faculty member, culminating in a paper. Required of Ph.D. candidates.(Letter.)Effective: 2011 Fall Quarter.

COM250C—Research in Third Literature or Special Topic(4)Active

Conference—1 hour(s); Term Paper; Independent Study—8 hour(s).Individually guided research, under the supervision of a faculty member, in the third literature of concentration or on a special topic culminating in a paper. Required of Ph.D. candidates.(Letter.)Effective: 2016 Winter Quarter.

COM250D—Dissertation Prospectus (4)Active

Independent Study.Individually guided writing of the dissertation prospectus under supervision of a faculty member. Must be taken prior to completion of the qualifying exam. Required of Ph.D. candidates.(S/U grading only.)Effective: 2006 Spring Quarter.

Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Graduate standing.Restricted to graduate students.History, theory, and methodology of comparative literature. Issues of national literature, world literature, and comparative literature. Relation of comparative literature to other disciplines and diverse expressions. Discussion of current problems in teaching and research in comparative literature. Required for MA/PhD.(Letter.)Effective: 2016 Winter Quarter.

COM260—Contexts of the 19th-Century Novel(4)Active

Seminar—3 hour(s); Term Paper.Prerequisite(s):Graduate standing or consent of instructor.Development in 19th-century history, culture, and society in relation
to major trends in the 19th-century novel.(Letter.)Effective: 1998 Fall Quarter.

COM297—Directed Independent Study in Primary, Secondary, or Third Literature (4)Active

Conference—1 hour(s); Term Paper; Independent Study—8 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Consent of Instructor.Restricted to graduate students.Directed Independent Study in Primary, Secondary, or Third Literature culminating in term paper. Only for languages with no graduate course offerings.May be repeated for credit when no seminars are available and topic differs.(Letter.)Effective: 2016 Spring Quarter.

Lecture—2 hour(s); Discussion—2 hour(s).Prerequisite(s):Appointment as a Comparative Literature Associate Instructor or consent of instructor.Restricted to graduate students.Discussion of the theory and practice of teaching composition at the college level in a department of comparative literature in relation to the major cultural and social developments and with specific application to the introductory courses 1, 2, 3, 4.(S/U grading only.)Effective: 2016 Winter Quarter.

COM392—Teaching Internship in Comparative Literature(2)Active

Discussion—2 hour(s).Restricted to graduate students.Regular consultations between the student instructor teaching Comparative Literature courses and a supervisor. Specifically designed for first-time TAs in COM 5, 6, 7, and 10. Instruction in the teaching of writing in a literature course, grading of papers, leading discussions.(S/U grading only.)Effective: 2016 Winter Quarter.